Package: kiax Version: 0.8.51.dfsg-1-1 Severity: serious Hi!
We had a package that we knew was dfsg compliant, I had removed the lib stuff which had several license problems because of that and then renamed it to dfsg as we had agreed that it was dfsg compliant, now... I found of a bad taste that a new "dfsg" package was uploaded, as I had objected to the DFSGness of this new package, today I have looked at it more carefully and I found out what had been said before, please somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but... 1- the echo cancellation stuff doesn't have a license we can use to say it's free, this has been discussed before (see Emil Stoyanov [1] message to the list) and I didn't read anybody saying that it was no longer like that 2- the iLBC stuff is stil non-free as it used to be that way and it hasn't changed its license. Other than that, having a program include on its sources at least 4 of our already packaged libs and use those sources to compile them statically instead of using our tested libs seems a really bad way of packaging something. So... after having a package that could go into Debian because it was free, we have now come back to the sources that our ftp masters had rejected because they were non-free. This really seems nonsense to me, I don't know if I have to take this as a joke or what, who didn't read the list or didn't at least didn't look at the sources that he was packaging, or... I just can't explain this, please somebody explain this for me. I had to check twice that what I was looking at were the sources coming from cc39dab9cb55afbe9722a6f4ad2bb5f0 kiax_0.8.51.dfsg-1.orig.tar.gz and not from the old non-free version we used to have, and in fact all non-free stuff is in there. I hope I'm missing something with all this, otherwise I don't know what we are playing at, this seems completely nonsense and a Debian developer should be more cautious with what he uploads at least once he knows there are problems with licenses on some parts of a software. Regards... -- Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-voip-maintainers/2006-May/004800.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
